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'noka' (which seem to require contact with a surface) A wheel does it (contact with a surface), and is an organ of locomotion. I didn't forget "noka" also means "support". Then a more probable "verbification" for it would be "to support", but I seldom see any...

tp is for fun. But, why tp has so little number of fun events? thumbs.dreamstime.com x christmas-elves-sign-26989237.jpg Today, I propose for the strongest tp-masters to test themselves in a really difficult puzzle. Its name is "pixie" (from, misterious pX-notation). The conditions of the ...

Ten years still seems optimistic but nto, perhaps, so impossible as my rather jaundiced view. We have two workable analogies for proto-semantics. First, a mathematical decimal model, where each digit takes ist own place and is strongly related with others. Second, a Turing machine. And these models...

jan lili, waso lili noun head first Agree, but what is about: " lili pona ", " lili ike "? a small Google search reveals that "mute ike" is used for "too much". - mute pona - mute ike - lili pona - lili ike Are these combinations allowed or forbidden in tp? I...

It's crash. I have totally forgotten three principal tp-rules: 1) head-order 2) head-noun, and 3) adjective-tail. So, all my speculations on "enough" (mute pona) were wrong. I have re-read the jan Kipo's comment "So 'mute pona' clearly means "enough, the right amount ", and ...

'li pi' is automatically ungrammatical because 'pi' has to come between content words In a common case it is an ellipsis (a contextual speech form, that is a collapsed part of a sentence). We know, that tp is a contextual language, so we may have some invisible part of sentence ('li... pi") in...

I very like a perfectness of digits's order (0, 1, 2... 9). In this order, I always know where I am: left-right, more-less... etc. When I am trying to define where I am in tp, I am confused: "li pi", "pi X". But, the most hard for me is: to divide a semantic field on two parts be...

"flower" = 'kasi kule' in standard idiom. I do not want to say: "baby li kasi" (grass, bush, tree, liane...mashroom), my poetic kon wants to say "jan lili li flower ", directly, in one word . Ah, you think 'ali' means life in a biological sense rather than merely an ex...

buried in 'pi While it is difficult for me. Though, I have got a little hint from your comment in another post about "x la S" and "S lon x". It inspire me to draw a scheme with "S pi x" and "x tan S". I do not say that this is a correct scheme, only a draft f...

Mucking about with the vocabulary sorta ruins the experiment Agree with you in that part that tp has redundant things, from one side, and has not some simple but very needed things. For example, a flower. (children are the flowers of life). I want to say it in tp. But, a vague semantics, that I see...